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{"title":"Neoliberal shifts and strategies of religious adaptation in post-war Sri Lanka","authors":"O. Woods","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2271768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2271768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139266962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Religion in lockdown: worship in the time of Covid-19","authors":"Rina Arya","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2262210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2262210","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The state of lockdown during Covid-19 had a significant impact on the way in which religion was practised with respect to attitudes towards faith, rituals, and ways of worshipping. This study captures the experiences of practitioners of different faiths in the immediate aftermath of the first lockdown in the UK. Questions were designed to prompt reflection on this drastic change to normal life. The study shows that the experience of lockdown not only provided people with space to think about their faith but also forced them to confront their praxis. What emerged were the novel ways in which respondents engaged with digital technology (the practice of religion online) and material culture to facilitate worship.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135616241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing religious literacy through popular culture fandom: engaging religious issues in <i>Fleabag</i> fan fiction","authors":"Andrew Crome","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2247699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2247699","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines 120 fan-authored stories focusing on the character of the “Hot Priest” in television comedy Fleabag (BBC/Amazon 2016-2019), examining how fans use their fandom to explore religious issues and develop religious and theological literacy. This challenges the “banality” of media representations of religion suggested by Stig Hjarvard’s mediatisation thesis through examining fan responses to a “secular” television show. As they engage through fandom, fan authors participate in reflection on contemporary Catholic issues, discuss God’s character, and interpretations of scripture. This is a form of “serious play” that allows for detailed meditation on these subjects. Although fans’ engagement with religious issues is not a reversal of the decline of religious affiliation in the West, it is a sign of the “new visibility of religion” in which examples of both “traditional” and new religion emerge in novel, and often unexpected, contexts.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modern demonology: the discernment of spirits in the theatre of colonial modernity","authors":"S. Jonathon O’Donnell","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2262803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2262803","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article analyses contemporary Charismatic evangelical ideas of ‘discernment’ in the context of US ‘spiritual warfare’ demonologies to argue that these demonologies are distinctly modern. Through a critical examination of spiritual warfare texts, it first demonstrates that discernment situates spiritual warfare demonologies in wider modernist projects of taxonomic classification, intertextual referentiality, and empirical observation. Then, drawing on post- and de-colonial scholarship that has shown European modernity to have arisen through the mechanisms of colonialism, the article contends that narratives of missionary encounters with the demonic replicate this relation between modernity and coloniality. Spiritual warfare reduces vibrant non-evangelical lifeworlds to objects of demonological knowledge, raw data that can only be properly interpreted and systematised by evangelical discernment. This systematisation permits the assimilation of these lifeworlds into a soteriological narrative of modern progress through religious conversion and (thus) socio-economic development. By demonstrating discernment’s inextricability from modernist methodologies and modernity’s foundational and enduring relation to coloniality, the article argues for understanding contemporary Charismatic demonology as distinctly modern.KEYWORDS: American evangelicalismdiscernmentspiritual warfarecolonial modernitymodernist epistemology Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (grant number GOIPD/2018/416).Notes on contributorsS. Jonathon O’DonnellS. Jonathon O’Donnell is Visiting Scholar in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Their research explores intersections of religious demonologies and political dehumanisation. They are author of Passing Orders: Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare (2021) and articles in journals such as Religion, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Political Theology. CORRESPONDENCE: School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135732306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Religiosity, trust, and the acceptance of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic restrictions: the case of Poland","authors":"Irena Pilch, Agnieszka Turska-Kawa, Natalia Galica","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2260165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2260165","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationships between personal religiosity, trust, and the acceptance of restrictions which could be imposed on individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to overcome the crisis. The study was carried out in Poland, a country with one of the highest declared levels of religiosity in Europe. Interpersonal and institutional trust were measured. The acceptance of the pandemic restrictions was positively related to personal religiosity and institutional trust (trust in the Church, trust in the Government, and trust in the health authorities). However, there was no association between the acceptance of the restrictions and interpersonal trust. Trust in the Church turned out to mediate the relationship between religiosity and the acceptance of most restrictions associated with the pandemic. The results of the study are discussed in the context of other studies on the relationship between religiosity and health behavior.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136210528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The formal rules of organised religion: a framework for empirical research","authors":"Stratos Patrikios","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2258713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2258713","url":null,"abstract":"The ideal length of formal rules has been studied as a core preoccupation of firms and states. Shorter rules are a typical firm’s response to performance pressures concerning efficiency; longer rules are a typical polity’s solution to questions of political control and order. Very little is known in this respect about the rules of an institution that has been longer-lived and more influential than most firms and states: organised religion. Are the drafters of church rules more sensitive to performance pressures or to political considerations or to both? This article brings together theories of constitutional politics, church and state, bureaucracy, and economic competition to develop explanations of length variation in the core rules of churches. An empirical exploration proposes ways to test these expectations and produces relevant preliminary evidence. This new direction in the study of institutional religion can update existing understandings of churches as complex institutions that lie somewhere between the ideal-typical firm and the ideal-typical polity.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135043902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Cookies to serve God’s glory”: the St Roger Abbey organic French patisserie as a religious and secular site","authors":"Benjamin E. Zeller","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2251282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2251282","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article examines a small French patisserie in the Chicago suburbs, St Roger Abbey, operated by the Fraternité Notre Dame, a Marian devotional movement. Using visual analysis of the physical space and product packaging, and textual analysis of their marketing material, I argue that the patisserie’s proprietors deploy religious symbols and concepts to invoke, both explicitly and implicitly, authenticity and value, drawing from a reservoir of cultural nostalgia and exoticism. St Roger Abbey markets itself as offering the spiritual authenticity of the premodern, allowing individuals figuratively and literally to consume these markers of nostalgia and authenticity and, in doing so, reinforce their constructed identities within the sanctioned bounds of contemporary neoliberal capitalism. The case of St Roger Abbey challenges social models that emphasize a secular/religious divide.KEYWORDS: Authenticitycommercebusinessnostalgiafoodvisual analysispostsecularism AcknowledgmentsA previous version of this article was presented in 2018 in a research seminar at the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi in Turku, Finland. I appreciate feedback from Marcus Moberg, Terhi Utriainen, Peter Nynäs, Ruth Illman, and others present at that seminar. Stephen Bullivant also provided helpful feedback, as did the anonymous reviewers of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 The group uses “St Roger Abbey” as its official registered trademark, although occasionally employs “St. Roger Abbey” and even more occasionally “Saint Roger Abbey”. I use their official name throughout.2 Research for this article was completed at the Hawthorn Mall location, although the new location in the town square (cf. high street) in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette is nearly identical, as are the products.3 I am unsure why the group vacillates between ‘St’, ‘St.’, and ‘Saint’, but have reproduced these as used in the store.Additional informationFundingNo external funding source was reported by the author.Notes on contributorsBenjamin E. ZellerBenjamin E. Zeller is Professor and Chair of Religion at Lake Forest College in Chicago, USA. He is the author of Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion (2014) and Prophets and Protons: New Religious Movements and Science in Late Twentieth-Century America (2010), editor of the Handbook of UFO Religions (2021), and co-editor of Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America (2023), Religion, Food, and Eating in North America (2014), and The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements (2014). He is also co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. CORRESPONDENCE: Lake Forest College, 555 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045, USA.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135815747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural responses to face coverings: South Asian women’s perspectives","authors":"Rina Arya","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2246749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2246749","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research note conveys the views of three women with South Asian backgrounds on face coverings which became mandatory in certain places in the UK during Covid-19. All three women made connections between wearing face coverings and the practice of veiling associated with Islam. The conversations that ensued explored the ramifications of the action of covering their faces in relation to cultural memories, isolation, and discrimination.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45431594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Activism and ‘lived religion’: challenging the anti-refugee attitudes in Poland","authors":"Izabella Main, Izabela Kujawa","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2021.1984015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2021.1984015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses the role played by religion in humanitarian aid for refugees and migrants of various faiths in predominantly Catholic Poland. Although the country has accepted small numbers of refugees for years, the discussion about their presence as well as the state of the asylum system has captured the attention of the general public in 2015. The European ‘refugee crisis’ sparked a fierce debate, further aggravated by the parliamentary and presidential elections that took place that year. The Roman Catholic Church was quite vocal in the debate, with representatives’ attitudes ranging from supportive to ambiguous and outright hostile. In this article, we focus on the grassroots initiatives at the margins of the Church that challenged the negative narratives and helped refugees and migrants. Based on empirical research we analyze the proclamations and activities of these actors. We show how the ‘refugee crisis’ became a “moment of ethics” (Zigon 2008) that encouraged people to help others in need. We explore how the diverse support for the refugees established a space to conceive of religion and moral values as they are lived (McGuire 2008) and translated into activism.","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42081910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vernacular Knowledge: Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs","authors":"Andrea Rota","doi":"10.1080/13537903.2023.2204642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2023.2204642","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45932,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary Religion","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139343120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}